(n.) One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
(n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.
(v. i.) To apostatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ellen Mouravieff-Apostal was a social worker, a leader in the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and with her husband Andrew the force that grew international social work.
(2) Isis is a Sunni extremist group that targets non-Sunnis as apostates, in some cases with sympathy or even the support of non-jihadi Sunni groups and leaders.
(3) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
(4) He is a former Republican Senator and Governor of Rhode Island who went apostate in the 2000s, the only Republican Senator to vote against Iraq War II, and he is pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-gun control and pro-progressive taxation.
(5) He’s the one who has drawn radical protests at the mosque, been called an apostate, awarded a fatwah for backing same-sex marriage.
(6) The hearts of America and its allies were broken by the Islamic State when it cut off the rotten heads of some agents, spies, and apostates.” In recent months Isis extremists have killed a number of western journalists and aid workers , filming the act and posting it online.
(7) Most Afghans are Sunni, and Isis regards Shias as apostates.
(8) Writing about this at the time, Hossam Bahgat saw it as an attempt by the Mubarak regime to undercut Islamist opposition by portraying the state as the guardian of public virtue: “To counter this ascending [Islamist] power, the state resorts to sensational prosecutions, in which the regime steps in to protect Islam from evil apostates.
(9) The men, aged 25 to 40, are all labelled in the Isis propaganda video as murtad – meaning apostate in Arabic – and wear orange jumpsuits.
(10) It will be harder for Iran to blame the Saudis for “incubating” the Isis takfiri doctrine – sanctioning the killing of apostates – if its own Shia allies are behaving in a brutally sectarian way.
(11) The men are all labelled as murtad in the footage – meaning apostate in Arabic.
(12) National security adviser Michael Flynn has written : “I’m totally convinced that, without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed,” adding: “Do you want to be ruled by men who eagerly drink the blood of their dying enemies?” Flynn’s deputy, KT Macfarland argued that, without American leadership, global jihadism will “usher in its version of paradise – the destruction of the apostates and unbelievers and the triumph of the caliphate”.
(13) The intrusion of such sentiments at all levels has led to instances such as an imam in a mosque in the capital referring to Shia Muslims as apostates, or a national cricketer compelled to remove a photo of goddess Durga from his Facebook page after protests that he had offended Muslim sentiments.
(14) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(15) But Batten's document even goes so far as to say that anyone who "deviates from the path of this charter … would be regarded as an outcast from the religion of Islam" and that these apostates would be "denounced as a non-Muslim and find no protection in the Muslim community".
(16) How had such a reviled capitalist institution fallen into such an apostate land?
(17) But another fighter who appeared to be from a European country, judging from his accent in Arabic, described their aim “to liberate the land from the fifth of the apostates, the PKK and others”, referring to Kurdish secular fighters who are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim as apostates.
(18) He can be sentenced as an apostate, and the same can be done to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Taslima Nasreen [the Bangladeshi novelist under threat of decapitation who has just been offered refuge in Paris].
(19) Abdel Wahab also revived interest in the works of the 13th-century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, who came to be seen as the mentor of the Salafi-jihadi world view, and the doctrine of takfir – permitting the killing of anyone deemed to be an apostate.
(20) The Isis statement on Twitter said the bomber had targeted a “temple of the apostates”.
Infidel
Definition:
(a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.
(n.) One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
(2) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(3) I got a hint of the price she has paid for her ambidextrous approach to cultural identify after her last interview was published, when a shocking number of British Pakistani men got in touch to denounce her as a shameful infidel.
(4) Alterations of DNA can be caused by reaction of electrophilic agents with DNA constituents, by increased infidelity of DNA replication, by integration of viral genomes or by recombination events involving integrated proviruses.
(5) In 56 cases (10,2%) we found a marker profile consisting of both myeloid and lymphoid characteristics (biphenotypic) leukemia = interlineage infidelity).
(6) "Ectopic" marker expression, however, which should not be interpreted as reflecting lineage infidelity, may in some instances explain different clinical courses in AL patients.
(7) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
(8) This finding supports the concept of lineage fidelity, and suggests that true interlineage infidelity, myeloid to lymphoid, is a rare occurrence in adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
(9) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
(10) Mysteries remain, however: the people involved in infidelities are still unnamed and the writers have not yet revealed the identity of their 'deep throat'.
(11) "Are you an infidel to try and take that from them?
(12) Naseri told The Saturday Paper Taliban fighters found his Australian driver’s licence and photos of Australia on his phone, threatening him, “You [are] from an infidel country, we kill you.
(13) Research revealed Mandela's infidelities, his love of smart suits, his reluctance to abandon a successful career as a lawyer for the high risks of politics.
(14) 1994 Publication of The Prince of Wales, for which author Jonathan Dimbleby is given full access to Prince and his papers and diaries, reveals details of his infidelity and suggestions that Diana was mentally unstable.
(15) The association was maintained when the data was stratified by other risk factors, including PE2 and the presence of blasts bearing immunologically-defined markers of more than one differentiation lineage (lineage infidelity).
(16) In the book, Trierweiler describes infidelity as “an infernal cycle”.
(17) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(18) Later he told a TV interviewer that he had shown heroic self-restraint in not mentioning Bill Clinton’s past infidelities out of respect for their daughter Chelsea.
(19) Whether these cases represent true "lineage infidelity" remains to be answered.
(20) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.